Tunisia, sentence 12
From Wikipedia, «Tunisia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Vernacular Tunisian Arabic is the most spoken language, and French serves as an administrative and educational language in some contexts, but has no official status.
Who acts: Vernacular Tunisian Arabic · What happens: speak, be, have · To what, where: spoken language, official status · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tunisia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vernacular Tunisian Arabic), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vernacular | vernacular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Arabic | amod |
| 2 | Tunisian | Tunisian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Arabic | compound |
| 3 | Arabic | Arabic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 language | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 language | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 language | det |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 spoken | advmod |
| 7 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 language | amod |
| 8 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 serves | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 serves | cc |
| 11 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 serves | amod |
| 12 | serves | serve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 language | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 language | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 language | det |
| 15 | administrative | administrative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 language | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 educational | cc |
| 17 | educational | educational | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 administrative | conj |
| 18 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 serves | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 contexts | case |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 contexts | det |
| 21 | contexts | context | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 language | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 has | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 has | cc |
| 24 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 language | parataxis |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 status | det |
| 26 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 status | amod |
| 27 | status | status | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 has | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 language | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | participle | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Vernacular Tunisian Arabic | the spoken language and French serves as a administrative language in some contexts | French serves as a administrative language in some contexts conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | present | no official status | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent status=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
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